The Magical Jackass says “do it.”
When is a ride no longer a ride, but something else entirely? Submitted here are the numbers from a self-described “angst ridden” foray into the Lake George region to mitigate the effects of a term of unemployment a few years back. In light of our recent recession and in the spirit of self-help, we thought we’d post the ride numbers here, as a guide to those who may be out of a job.
Apparently if you’re unemployed, it takes 9 hour and 13 minutes, 6,808 Kj, and 166 miles to forget about your troubles. There. Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it? And the screaming pain and blinding fatigue you will feel will make your troubles float away as if they were soap bubbles blown by a magical mule perched atop a rainbow.
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if you head out on weekday mornings, there is a team of executive headhunters waiting at the bear mountain inn. they will punch your card and when you get back to manhattan, just show the card at any (participating) wall st firm, and a sexually-harassable executive assistant will show you to your new corner office where you can begin a new life of corporate pillory.
that is some good 9 hour numbers you got there!
Top speed of 52, max HR of 216, max cadence 217!
holy f-in shit, 205 watts for 9 hours – this shit is EXTREME!
“And the screaming pain and blinding fatigue you will feel will make your troubles float away as if they were soap bubbles blown by a magical mule perched atop a rainbow.”
Seriously, that’s a great line. Where do you come up with this stuff? You should write kids books!
“Top speed of 52, max HR of 216, max cadence 217!”
average numbers are still mighty good.
Anomalies for sure, but I think it was an SRM.
what’s the longest hillclimb within reasonable riding distance from nyc (besides multiple hill repeats on river road…)?
Highly doubt thats one day anyone confirm.
It’s one day for reals.
Must be Perkins from 9w to the top. about a 18-20min effort if you are fit.
cool, thanks.
per google map that’s a ~1200 ft. elevation gain.
anyone know if n. deep hollow road in/thru west point is ridable? that looks like a long one.
52 south out of Ellenville is good. Or veer off at the bottom and go up South Gully to Cragsmoor.
wow! that looks like another good one, goes up to ~1800ft. what’s traffic like? is that a country road, and do i need to bring a small banjo in the fanny pack just in case i gotta do some prayin’?
It’s poor at the bottom, rich at the top. Traffic is light on 52 for a ST highway. On S. Gully there is no traffic.
on those climbing routes: is that a drive out from nyc, park somewhere south (nyack or something) & ride it, or man up & ride out there from nyc then ride back?
Gets you to Perkins. If you want to drive you might as well go to the Catskills and do some bigger climbs. You must be new to cycling…
sorry i meant doing the 52south, ellenville, cragsmoor routes from nyc, not just perkins….
yep done perkins riding from nyc there & back many times. long haul indeed. going farther to state hwy 52, cragsmoor or ellenville, i’d imagine that’s at least another 20-30+ miles roundtrip if doing the perkins loop, and sadistic amounts of climbing?
too long & painful for my taste…but maybe doable if i drove to piermont or nyack perhaps.
thanks for the ride route tips!
“you aint got no job, and you aint got sh-t to do” ride…
casual, endurance/tempo pace, some rollers…
10:30-2:30, warmer part of the day…meet at Riverside Church.
Orchards/South Mtn Road???
email me to confirm
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18 minutes up Perkins is roughly 5.4 W/Kg and 20 minutes is about 4.9. I’d be surprised if a huge number of people around here can do that. 21-23 minutes is more normal for a reasonably fit rider.
like 15 min from traffic circle at Lodge to top of Perkins, but I am thinking of 1989 when he was Atala/Somec junior???
how are you figuring the watts per kilo numbers?
I’ve done 19:30 from the bottom of 9w to the porta potty at the top and that was 350 watts at 70kg. Speed is low enough that time is proportional to w/k. You could also plug the info into analyticcycling.com and it would verify it.
How many miles is it from the bottom of 9W to the porta potty at the top?
It’s about 4.5 miles.